Post by stargazer1682 on Nov 27, 2019 6:10:03 GMT
Let's be honest, this title probably came about when someone walked in on one of the writers doing a google search on something else entirely; and they pitched a Ralph episode as a quick cover.
But in fairness to that writer, if you're going to get it elongated, it's probably best you go with someone licensed.
So apparently "Nash" said he could save Barry, left the room and everybody followed; then didn't say anything else the entire way back to the tunnel and no one asked him to elaborate how he would save Barry until they got there.
I'm going to take a stab in the dark and say that the out for Barry living through the crisis is that the other Barry Allen from Earth 90 will be the one sacrificing himself; thus "the crisis can only be averted with the death of the Flash" will be maintained, but just not this Flash. This is even more predictable seeing how they're bothering to bring him back after Thanosing him out of existence in last year's crossover after 5 minutes of screen time; and now all of a sudden he's going to be back and part of Crisis, rather than just having JWS back as Jay Garrick.
I swear, this entire series could just summed up with a gif of Barry running at super speed and bouncing off a wall....
In fact.....
That took way fucking longer to make than it actually should have, and I'm kind of pissed how much of a pain and the ass my computers were being in doing something that should have taken maybe 5 minutes, but ultimately I'm happy to have that gif now and I'm pretty sure it's going to come in handy.....
So they've had this singularity guy in their Easy Bake oven for like, a month or two; and they know he's close to being ready, so they just leave him entirely alone in Star Labs to follow the latest version of Wells on a wild goose chase?
Yeah, that's about par for the course.
Wait, did they let people think he died? I mean, wouldn't the Flash let someone know this guy was alive and recuperating or something? If only they knew, I don't know, a reporter or a top level person in law enforcement, to help disseminate the information....
They wouldn't even have to say where he was, you know, not giving away the Flash's "secret" lair. Or conversely they could just say he was at Star Labs, because it is an advanced fucking research facility that might be able to handle the guy biologically bonded to black holes and help treat him; and there wouldn't have to be any reason to draw an association between Star Labs and the Flash.
The Flash is going to hold a press conference to pass the torch to Elongated Man? And say what? "The world is about to be in peril and I'm going to die saving you"?
Man, I know Barry's often a spaz, but Jesus, how is he that inept at the gala? And were they intentionally trying to have Grant do his worst "Tom Hanks in Big" impression?
So they've completely run out of ideas of what to do with Cecile.... I mean, I knew this a while ago.... but God damn....
Jesus tap dancing Christ, Barry; are going to find out that when you ran into that wall you received brain damage or something? How is he so bad at this?
Between his less than subtle attempt to back-up Ralph's play with the woman they ran into at the ball; and now him just flat out bringing up Sue with all of the subtlety of horny teenager trying to make to second base, I think he's earned himself another one of these....
I'm a little impressed with how much of a competent detective they've Ralph, but at the same time it comes at the expense of making Barry a complete idiot in order to allow Ralph to shine; which is just shitty, lazy writing.
Oh for fuck sake, they don't know what to do with Caitlin/Frost either - which is especially dumb trying to shoehorn her into a story in the episode Danielle Panabaker directed. Any other series would have had Q pop up, snap his fingers, and make Caitlin take a nap for 90% of the episode. Sure as hell beats....whatever the fuck this is.
I feel bad for this woman what's-his-name is stalking, with the help of a former DA no less. I'd pay good money for Cecile to read her only realize the girl is a lesbian and thus definitely not interested. I'm talk like 200-250 pennies, easily.
Wait, the general public doesn't know about parallel earths? I swear there have been entire plot points, just this season, across the various Arrowverse shows, that have hinged on some rando knowing about the multiverse and not even batting an eye. There was a guy that saw a device that looked like a garage door opener and immediately recognized it as something that could open a portal between Earths; and it wasn't even Jerry O'Connell....
Anyone else surprised Ralph didn't yell "Judo chop!" when knocking out the guard?
For fuck sake, how does anyone ever get the drop on the Flash; let alone after he's just done a super speed search of the area?
You know, before Ralph got his powers he had a gut and used his powers to morph himself into better shape - when his powers are dampened, shouldn't he revert back to his out of shape physique?
How is this plan to fight Meister and Ultra-Violet in their civillian identities supposed to help them in any way??? Barry's lame ass diversion helped for what, a minute?
That took zero effort to not only hack the laptop controlling the death satellite, but then blow-up said death satellite....
I get that Barry being awarded the Medal of Honor is a way of public acknowledging Barry for all the work he does as the Flash, without revealing his identity, but it feels like that would have worked better if the episode had actually shown Barry doing something in the capacity as a CCPD CSI deserving in its own right of that award. Done this way it just seems tacked on to an otherwise stupid and pointless episode and feels completely hollow.
I mean, this makes me think of Buffy the Vampire Slayer when they had her class acknowledge that, while they don't know what exactly is going on in Sunnydale, things are better than what they could be because of Buffy; and that their class had the lowest death rate in Sunnydale high history - such a great fucking scene in the series.
This feels like a cheap knock off of that moment. We never see him actually do any work as a CSI anymore; and the acknowledgment was so ambiguously worded; you can just envision one of the reporters there doing even a little digging into Barry's background, if only for color commentary to add some details about exactly why this particular person got such a prestigious award and basically coming up empty. Like, he did his job, but nothing so earth shattering or profound discovery as to actually merit a freakin' medal of honor. I'd think any of the other officers/detectives/et al at CCPD might raise a few eyebrows too.
And I guess what annoys me is that, that could have been the episode - Barry Allen saves Central City. Not the Flash, Barry. And it's all good and well for Joe to give the award, but I kind feel like it would have had more impact if someone impartial, like Singh had been the one awarding him the medal. Let Joe be the one pinning it on him, sure, coming from Joe and a masked hero kind of diminishes the sentiment for me somehow; I supposed because it's coming from people closest to him rather than someone impartial and not in the know about all he's done, yet still sees enough to know that Barry's done something important.
And where the fuck is Iris? Joe knew they were giving Barry a medal, and she heads a newspaper; and isn't at this press release/award ceremony??
How the hell did Dr. Coffee Guy even know where Ralph was??
But in fairness to that writer, if you're going to get it elongated, it's probably best you go with someone licensed.
So apparently "Nash" said he could save Barry, left the room and everybody followed; then didn't say anything else the entire way back to the tunnel and no one asked him to elaborate how he would save Barry until they got there.
I'm going to take a stab in the dark and say that the out for Barry living through the crisis is that the other Barry Allen from Earth 90 will be the one sacrificing himself; thus "the crisis can only be averted with the death of the Flash" will be maintained, but just not this Flash. This is even more predictable seeing how they're bothering to bring him back after Thanosing him out of existence in last year's crossover after 5 minutes of screen time; and now all of a sudden he's going to be back and part of Crisis, rather than just having JWS back as Jay Garrick.
I swear, this entire series could just summed up with a gif of Barry running at super speed and bouncing off a wall....
In fact.....
That took way fucking longer to make than it actually should have, and I'm kind of pissed how much of a pain and the ass my computers were being in doing something that should have taken maybe 5 minutes, but ultimately I'm happy to have that gif now and I'm pretty sure it's going to come in handy.....
So they've had this singularity guy in their Easy Bake oven for like, a month or two; and they know he's close to being ready, so they just leave him entirely alone in Star Labs to follow the latest version of Wells on a wild goose chase?
Yeah, that's about par for the course.
Wait, did they let people think he died? I mean, wouldn't the Flash let someone know this guy was alive and recuperating or something? If only they knew, I don't know, a reporter or a top level person in law enforcement, to help disseminate the information....
They wouldn't even have to say where he was, you know, not giving away the Flash's "secret" lair. Or conversely they could just say he was at Star Labs, because it is an advanced fucking research facility that might be able to handle the guy biologically bonded to black holes and help treat him; and there wouldn't have to be any reason to draw an association between Star Labs and the Flash.
The Flash is going to hold a press conference to pass the torch to Elongated Man? And say what? "The world is about to be in peril and I'm going to die saving you"?
Man, I know Barry's often a spaz, but Jesus, how is he that inept at the gala? And were they intentionally trying to have Grant do his worst "Tom Hanks in Big" impression?
So they've completely run out of ideas of what to do with Cecile.... I mean, I knew this a while ago.... but God damn....
Jesus tap dancing Christ, Barry; are going to find out that when you ran into that wall you received brain damage or something? How is he so bad at this?
Between his less than subtle attempt to back-up Ralph's play with the woman they ran into at the ball; and now him just flat out bringing up Sue with all of the subtlety of horny teenager trying to make to second base, I think he's earned himself another one of these....
I'm a little impressed with how much of a competent detective they've Ralph, but at the same time it comes at the expense of making Barry a complete idiot in order to allow Ralph to shine; which is just shitty, lazy writing.
Oh for fuck sake, they don't know what to do with Caitlin/Frost either - which is especially dumb trying to shoehorn her into a story in the episode Danielle Panabaker directed. Any other series would have had Q pop up, snap his fingers, and make Caitlin take a nap for 90% of the episode. Sure as hell beats....whatever the fuck this is.
I feel bad for this woman what's-his-name is stalking, with the help of a former DA no less. I'd pay good money for Cecile to read her only realize the girl is a lesbian and thus definitely not interested. I'm talk like 200-250 pennies, easily.
Wait, the general public doesn't know about parallel earths? I swear there have been entire plot points, just this season, across the various Arrowverse shows, that have hinged on some rando knowing about the multiverse and not even batting an eye. There was a guy that saw a device that looked like a garage door opener and immediately recognized it as something that could open a portal between Earths; and it wasn't even Jerry O'Connell....
Anyone else surprised Ralph didn't yell "Judo chop!" when knocking out the guard?
For fuck sake, how does anyone ever get the drop on the Flash; let alone after he's just done a super speed search of the area?
You know, before Ralph got his powers he had a gut and used his powers to morph himself into better shape - when his powers are dampened, shouldn't he revert back to his out of shape physique?
How is this plan to fight Meister and Ultra-Violet in their civillian identities supposed to help them in any way??? Barry's lame ass diversion helped for what, a minute?
That took zero effort to not only hack the laptop controlling the death satellite, but then blow-up said death satellite....
I get that Barry being awarded the Medal of Honor is a way of public acknowledging Barry for all the work he does as the Flash, without revealing his identity, but it feels like that would have worked better if the episode had actually shown Barry doing something in the capacity as a CCPD CSI deserving in its own right of that award. Done this way it just seems tacked on to an otherwise stupid and pointless episode and feels completely hollow.
I mean, this makes me think of Buffy the Vampire Slayer when they had her class acknowledge that, while they don't know what exactly is going on in Sunnydale, things are better than what they could be because of Buffy; and that their class had the lowest death rate in Sunnydale high history - such a great fucking scene in the series.
This feels like a cheap knock off of that moment. We never see him actually do any work as a CSI anymore; and the acknowledgment was so ambiguously worded; you can just envision one of the reporters there doing even a little digging into Barry's background, if only for color commentary to add some details about exactly why this particular person got such a prestigious award and basically coming up empty. Like, he did his job, but nothing so earth shattering or profound discovery as to actually merit a freakin' medal of honor. I'd think any of the other officers/detectives/et al at CCPD might raise a few eyebrows too.
And I guess what annoys me is that, that could have been the episode - Barry Allen saves Central City. Not the Flash, Barry. And it's all good and well for Joe to give the award, but I kind feel like it would have had more impact if someone impartial, like Singh had been the one awarding him the medal. Let Joe be the one pinning it on him, sure, coming from Joe and a masked hero kind of diminishes the sentiment for me somehow; I supposed because it's coming from people closest to him rather than someone impartial and not in the know about all he's done, yet still sees enough to know that Barry's done something important.
And where the fuck is Iris? Joe knew they were giving Barry a medal, and she heads a newspaper; and isn't at this press release/award ceremony??
How the hell did Dr. Coffee Guy even know where Ralph was??